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Texas Man Gets 60 Years In Prison For Child Sex Abuse, Producing Hundreds Of Child Porn Images

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A man from Water Valley, Texas, northwest of San Angelo, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 60 years in prison for producing hundreds of videos and images of himself sexually abusing a child.

Douglas Stephen Groover, 37, was sentenced after pleading guilty in February 2020 to two counts of production of child pornography.

Douglas Groover
Douglas Groover (credit: Tom Green County Sheriff's Office)

The sentence also included a lifetime term of supervised release and a restitution award of $53,000.

According to court documents, in addition to the hundreds of videos and images he created of himself sexually abusing a minor, he also admitted to sexually abusing at least two additional minors.

Groover also admitted to maintaining a large collection of child pornography, which included depictions of the sexual abuse of infants and toddlers, sadism and bestiality.

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